Hi
You can do the same thing in cups with
lpadmin -p jerrypc -m laserjet.ppd.gz -v socket://[ip_address].
The only trick is finding the correct ppd for your printer. The conversion
problem is pretty much the same for cups or lprng.
Cheers for your reply jerry.
But I think my issue is
Hi again
I had this with a canon bjc4000.
Everyone told me I had the wrong ppd file. I never solved it.
I was printing locally, so I had other options. I went away and never
came back.
Well, in my case it was the 'wrong' ppd file that was the issue. I
noticed that on Slackware (where
Hello!
I have a problem printing to a network printer (which
is a Kyocera Mita FS-3820N) on BLFS-6.1.
I am currently using CUPS-1.1.23, but I don't think
that this is a CUPS problem.
The issue is the following:
I try to print a test page from CUPS (or a postscript
file using lpr) and instead of
Hi
The issue is the following:
I try to print a test page from CUPS (or a
postscript
file using lpr) and instead of getting an image, I
get
the header of the postscript printed as text.
I have installed the printer using the newest
version
of the ppd file supplied by the Kyocera
Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words
Hello!
I have a problem printing to a network printer (which
is a Kyocera Mita FS-3820N) on BLFS-6.1.
I am currently using CUPS-1.1.23, but I don't think
that this is a CUPS problem.
The issue is the following:
I try to print a test page
Declan Moriarty wrote:
I would try 'gs -h' make sure you see your printer in the output.
Your version of gs is also important - there are versions which are not
cups compatable.
His printer claims to support PostScript directly (the PPD file doesn't
contain cupsFilter statement), so your
Hi again.
After doing some more reading, I think I'm going to forget cups for now
and try lprng instead. It seems you can specify a printer device as
socket://[ip_address] from its lpc tool.
But it'll have to wait for another day as lprng.com is not working at
the moment.
Ta again.
8o)
jerry wrote these words on 10/24/05 11:59 CST:
After doing some more reading, I think I'm going to forget cups for now
and try lprng instead. It seems you can specify a printer device as
socket://[ip_address] from its lpc tool.
You can do the same thing in cups with
lpadmin -p jerrypc -m
